{"id":123256,"date":"2019-06-03T16:13:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T15:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=123256"},"modified":"2019-06-03T16:14:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T15:14:20","slug":"2019-afcon-what-mikel-obis-early-arrival-to-super-eagles-camp-means-rohr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=123256","title":{"rendered":"2019 AFCON: What Mikel Obi\u2019s early arrival to Super Eagles camp means \u2013 Rohr"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr, has reacted after captain, John Obi Mikel, arrived early to the national team\u2019s training camp in Asaba on Sunday.<\/p>\n

DAILY POST had reported that Mikel Obi, Leon Balogun of Brighton, Hove Albion and Levante winger, Moses Simon, were among the early arrivals on Sunday, at Nigeria\u2019s training camp for this month\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON.<\/p>\n

Rohr said that Mikel Obi\u2019s early arrival means that the former Chelsea star is very committed to do well and to lead the team to the 2019 AFCON in Egypt.<\/p>\n

\u201dMikel has at all times been a professional and the fact that he arrived here early means that he is very committed to do well and to lead us,\u201d Rohr was quoted by Allnigeriasoccer as saying.<\/p>\n

\u201dWe expect 25 players here but some of them cannot come in today because they had games\u2013 like Ighalo came yesterday from China \u2014 Alex Iwobi is also being expected.<\/p>\n

\u201dSo, the team will be complete in two days but already 18 players have arrived here in Asaba.<\/p>\n

\u201dTraining will start immediately today to get our players ready.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mikel Obi, who last played for his country at last year\u2019s World Cup in Russia, is currently without a club after Middlesbrough released him.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr, has reacted after captain, John Obi Mikel, arrived early to the national team\u2019s training camp in Asaba on Sunday. DAILY POST had reported that Mikel Obi, Leon Balogun of Brighton, Hove Albion and Levante winger, Moses Simon, were among the early arrivals on Sunday, at Nigeria\u2019s training camp for this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[7013,4046],"class_list":["post-123256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-mikel-obi","tag-super-eagle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}